About 30 minutes into Tuesday night’s symposium at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism, “Obama and The Press: Is the media doing its job,” I had a concrete answer. I really don’t care.

Not only had the question not been addressed, the panel of The New York Times‘ David Brooks, PBS’ Gwen Ifill, CNBC’s Trish Regan, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Fort Worth’s own Bob Schieffer were throwing out one liners and droning on about whether Obama had bitten off more than he could chew with the economy, Afghanistan and so forth. It was so much like a Sunday morning talk show that the only thing I needed was a plate of waffles to complete the scene.

It was great infotainment, but it never got close very close to topic, which I was actually interested in and disappointed that it was barely addressed. But in the end, the event devolved into what happens whenever two or more newspaper people get together — hand wringing and navel-gazing about how terrible it is what’s happening to newspapers. “It’s like being in the whaling industry,” Brooks said. Then, before I knew it, the blogger-sitting-around-in-the-pajamas metaphor had been deployed. That’s when the wheels came off. To quote another great Fort Worth luminary, Bill Paxton, game over, man.
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I don’t. At least not when it’s played by multi-millionaire crybabies. I prefer my footballers to be young, impressionable, and indentured servants.

Nevertheless, there are a WHOLE BUNCH of people out there who DO like pro football, but not that many in Fort Worth who have their own YouTube channel devoted to it.

That is, until the YouTube channel created by friend of W&C Jeff Wooten came along.

Check out his show, give him the love he deserves, then go back to arguing about who’s a better QB, Aikman or Romo.

P.S. — Am I the only one who’s annoyed when people refer to a pro sports team with possessive nouns? i.e. “Our kicker is awesome!” Etc.

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Lower the national speed limit back to 55, saving everyone money. Less gas used means less demand, and therefore prices decrease. Simple economics.

But the folks WFAA spoke to aren’t interested in that… They want the government to save them from those evil gas companies who are obviously gouging them. They want to be able to drive their gas guzzling vehicles and not have to face any consequences of their actions. They (and let’s face it, most people) want someone else to take care of the problem so that they can continue to not be responsible for their own actions.

This being the Independence Day holiday season, I have to wonder how the framers would have viewed this unwillingness to be responsible for anything. It seems to me that they were a bunch of guys who got tired of all the bitching about how bad things were under King George and actually decided to do something about it. Where is that spirit now? Have we really gotten so lazy and stupid that things like American Idol and Dancing With the Stars are more important than our political process? That was a rhetorical question — I’m afraid I couldn’t stand to hear a truthful answer.